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I’m usually hesitant to draw with a pen, especially a non-ballpoint one, because of obvious reasons: you can’t erase, you can’t really control the heaviness of the line, and did I mention you can’t erase? Unless it’s an eraseable pen, which is just wrong on so many levels.

Anyway, I needed to loosen up one night so I took out my trust Pilot Precise and sketched this out in about five minutes. I seem to be vaguely smiling, which is a nice change of pace from the usual intense glare I have in self-portraits. And I think I finally managed to draw convincing fabric creases in the shirt.